By the time Trump came along, discipline was a fading memory. Trump was seldom in perfect sync either with traditional Republican media like Fox, or his own White House press office. Moments in which all three pushed the same message were rare as pearls. The disconnect between Trump and his official spoke-steam often played out like an intentional slapstick routine. For example, when Kayleigh McEnany said in July 2020 that Trump was tested multiple times per day for Covid-19, Trump himself was saying he was tested on average once every two days, and he “didn’t know” if he’d ever been tested
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